Yoga for Stress, Yoga and Mindfulness, Inner Focus Physiotherapy

Yoga and more regular exercises are highly linked to clinical improvements in stress reduction. Speak to our therapists at Inner Focus Physiotherapy.

Yoga and Stress

There is overwhelming evidence linking the practice of yoga specifically, and exercise more generally, to clinical improvements in stress reduction. Clink on one of our articles below to see if this could help you or someone you know.

By reducing perceived stress and anxiety, yoga appears to modulate stress response systems. This, in turn, decreases physiological arousal — for example, reducing the heart rate, lowering blood pressure, and easing respiration. There is also evidence that yoga practices help increase heart rate variability, an indicator of the body's ability to respond to stress more flexibly.

Physical exercise has many beneficial effects on human health, including the protection from stress-induced depression. However, until now the mechanisms that mediate this protective effect have been unknown. A 2014 study demonstrates that exercise training induces changes in skeletal muscle that can purge the blood of a substance that accumulates during stress, and is harmful to the brain.